One of the Summer Reading Program’s goals is to encourage participants to read 20 minutes a day. While we have not reached that target yet, half of our locations (BI, BE, CT, DC, Digital Library, ED, HR, MC, NP, NW, VI, & WA) have shown an increase of the daily average of minutes read by individuals compared to this time last year. Systemwide, our average time spent reading per day is 10 minutes. How might we proactively speak to members about helping the Library to reach our goal of reading 20 minutes per day?
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How might we encourage participants to read at least 20 minutes per day and log their reading with us?
Why 20 minutes per day?
Studies show that reading for at least 20 minutes a day leads to greater success and reading stimulates your mind, reduces stress, improves your memory and concentration, and strengthens your analytical thinking skills.
Why 16 million minutes as a goal for this year?
Metro opted to aim for growing our Summer Reading participation this year by 9% and if each participant read just 20 minutes a day during June and July then this community will collectively have read 16,000,000 minutes.
I like to remind people that reading anything counts, including audio books, newspapers, magazines, etc.
A friend said, "But I only really read articles at work" to which I replied, "That counts! Log it!" :)
We do this as well. Reading online is the one that people forget often. They are always surprised that we allow this as they didn't figure reading anything other then a traditional format was allowed.
One of my supervisors even discussed the fact that those teens who watch Anime often read subtitles if they watch in the original Japanese.